Acropolis Museum
39 Dionysiou tou Areopagitou, 3rd Municipal Community, Athens, 117 42, Greece
This museum was built to win an argument.
Benaki Museum
1 Koumpari, 1st Municipal Community, Athens, 106 74, Greece
One man spent 35 years buying Greek history, then gave the whole lot away.
Museum of Cycladic Art
4 Douka Neofytou, 1st Municipal Community, Athens, 106 74, Greece
Five thousand years ago, sculptors in the Cycladic islands were carving human figures so minimal, so abstract, so hauntingly modern that when Picasso and Modigliani saw them in the early twentieth century, they thought they'd found proof that modernism was ancient.
National Archaeological Museum
44 28is Oktovriou, 1st Municipal Community, Athens, 106 82, Greece
This is where Greece keeps the really good stuff.
Stoa of Attalos
Ancient Agora, Athens 105 55
A fully reconstructed ancient Greek shopping mall stands in the middle of the Agora, and it works brilliantly as both a museum and a piece of experimental archaeology.
Explore museum in Athens
GPS-guided narration at every landmark. Tap a spot on the map, hear the story. Every fact verified.